Osteria

Our vision is to insure a quality dining every time you eat with us. Osteria's purpose is to provide 'Culinary Contentment.' Whether you are choosing to enjoy an Osteria meal at home, your business via delivery, or in our dinning room, it is our pleasure to assist you...

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  • Phone

    (650) 328-5700

  • Website

    osteriatoscanapaloalto.com

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  • Type

    Italian Restaurant

Address

247 Hamilton Ave (at Ramona) Palo Alto , CA 94301 United States

Credit Cards Yes (incl. Discover & Visa)
Outdoor Seating No
Menus Lunch, Dinner
Drinks Wine, Cocktails

Comments / 46


Keywords:

meuniere desserts good for dates great value minestrone soup veal dinner osso buco tomato sauce carbonara white wine lunch butter garlic sauce peas mozzarella lemon butter sauce carpaccio Tuscany flan vino
Stephen Jacob

Tasty as always. There are very few restaurants as consistent in quality (and good!) over multiple decades as Osteria. The hazelnut flan and zabaglione desserts are truly fantastic.

Robert Green

Try the Osso Bucco - Lovely lamb shank in tomato sauce with fresh pasta and peas . Yummy and more than enough to have lunch from the leftovers (via @Foodspotting)

Robert Green

Try the Linguine Vongole - Baby clams and Manila clams in a white wine butter garlic sauce . Also available with red sauce . (via @Foodspotting)

Josh W

Carpaccio and carbonara are great, if ultimately heavy and kind of unhealthy. Gotta be in the mood. Seating is pretty tightly packed, so beware.

Gina

We were a party of two with no reservations on a Saturday night and I had to ask my friend to go in and get seated while I find parking . No problem getting seated.

Angel Fu

A really cute Italian place . My favorite is their Spaghetti Carbonara . Also recommend their Tagliarini .

Robert Green

Try the Dow's Aged 10 Years Tawny Port - What's not to like about port ? (via @Foodspotting)

Robert Green

Try the Scallops Meuniere - Lovely seared scallops in a lemon butter sauce (via @Foodspotting)

Bruce C

Great food and service! Nice mix of elegance and hospitality .

Robert Green

Try the Vino Belnero Banfi - Great Tuscan IGT - yummy! (via @Foodspotting)

Mariianne Crary

Outstanding Italiano and very nice staff . New favorite.

Christina Rath

Great veal picatta- get it with creamed spinach as a side!

T

Love the minestrone soup . Out of the pasta dishes, Penne Fantasia and Pappardelle Osteria are good.

Robert Green

Try the Creme Caramelle - Yummy custard ! (via @Foodspotting)

B

The molten chocolate cake is pure lava, but delicious nonetheless

Meredith Dozier

Yummy pasta ! The complimentary bread is fresh & divine. But our waiter was completely creepy and awkward.

Denaya Dailey

So yummy you can't go wrong! I LOVE the buffalo di mozzarella !

‎ ןıɥd ʍɐן

Oh no guys, what happened? Tagliarini and pesto are lacking flavor. Gnocchi has lost its wonderful mouthwatering appeal. I'll give it one more chance, but this is not the Osteria I grew up with...

Daisy Zook

Food was just OK. Although the bread they served was delicious. Pasta I ordered (linguini vongole ) was rather bland. Dessert was good but nothing to rave about

Nana

Tastes like home made food. I'd rather stay home, cook and eat that! ????

Sarah Joe

The food is always amazing...delicious

Sandy White

Great service to match the food.

Chad Hill

Food is amazing! Be sure to get a desert or two.

Tuhin Kumar

Ask for the special dishes. They are often good.

Micha Porat

Get the hot chocolate cake with vanilla ice-cream. Wow.

Shobeir Shobeiri

The family and chef straight out of Italy. I love the Fettuccine Alfredo

Ms. Nicole

Fabulous food... Everything tastes delicious

Ghadah AM ✨

Calamari Steak Meunière ????

Karen Herzog

The dressing on the butter lettuce salad is delicious.

Marcela Sapone

Service and the food

ᴡ lee

Spinach with meat sauce is really good side

Maria Lambert

Watch out for the cranky maitre d. If you're missing one person from your party of 8, they won't seat you.

HD Lee

Nice food, Reasonable price.

Olga

If they say it's 1 hr wait to get a table, pretend to leave to get one immediately

Doug Garland

If you want a red sauce , Pappardelle is great. White sauce , try the Tortellini .

Al B.

VERY cramped here and waiter service is not great :/

Jason Forcier

Veal Scallopine!

Kevin Wheeler

Authentic Italian .

Emrecan Dogan

Big downside is that no soda (e.g. Coke , 7up...) is served except sparkling water.

Liz Rice

Disappointing - terribly overcooked pasta , grumpy host, hectic ambiance. Nice waiter , but that didn't really compensate for a plate of boiled mush.

Emrecan Dogan

Try Penne Arabiatta although not listed in the menu.

Gary Loitz

Yummy!

Sarah Ann Johnson

Come Visit Me At Work!!

Philip Pearl

Not impressed I'm afraid. Pasta ? and Strada much nicer.

Emrecan Dogan

Staff gets rude after 10pm weekdays as they want to close the place early but couldn't say it.

Kat ????

Tagliarini Verdi Con Gamberetti .

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